A BLUE BOOK PREVIEW Two Thousand and Thirteen American GLAMOUR EVOLVED by the LIGHT of TIFFANY DIAMONDS
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A BLUE BOOK PREVIEW Two Thousand and Thirteen AMERiCAN GLAMOUR EVOLVED BY THE LIGHT OF TIFFANY DIAMONDS. FROM THE OPULENT GILDED AGE TO THE JAZZ AGE THAT TRANSFORMED FASHION AND CULTURE, AND FROM NIGHTCLUBS TO A WHIRL OF BLACK-TIE BALLS, TIFFANY & CO. GAVE EACH NEW ERA ITS STYLE AND BRILLIANCE. LIKE A CAPTIVATING REFRAIN, THESE SPECTACULAR DIAMONDS INSPIRE NEW DESIGNS, BEJEWELED WITH A GREAT LEGACY THAT BRINGS MODERN GLAMOUR TO LIFE. TIFFANY DIAMONDS ARE THE CROWN JEWELS OF NEW YORK AND EMISSARIES OF GLAMOUR AROUND THE WORLD LEFT: A NECKLACE OF BAGUETTE AND ROUND BRILLIANT DIAMONDS. BRACELETS WITH SINGLE AND TRIPLE ROWS OF EMERALD-CUT DIAMONDS. 3 TIFFANY’S TREASURE TROVE OF JEWELS FROM THE 1920s INSPIRES A NEW AMERICAN GLAMOUR ARCHIVES-INSPIRED BRACELET OF BAGUETTE AND ROUND BRILLIANT DIAMONDS. EARRINGS OF BAGUETTE AND ROUND BRILLIANT DIAMONDS. 4 5 ELEGANCE IS CLASSICALLY DEFINED BY TUXEDO S AND SLEEK SATIN GOWNS, WITH JEWELS THAT DRAPE THE WRIST A WIDE BRACELET OF ROUND AND BAGUETTE DIAMONDS. RIGHT: A STREAMLINED BRACELET WITH ROUND, BAGUETTE AND SQUARE DIAMONDS; AND A BRACELET IN GRAPHIC BLACK AND WHITE, WITH ROUND AND PEAR-SHAPED DIAMONDS AND SIX CARVED ONYX SQUARES. 6 FOUNDER CHARLES LEWIS TIFFANY’S 1887 PURCHASE OF THE FRENCH CROWN JEWELS SET THE STANDARD FOR AMERiCAN LUXURY AND STYLE. HIS CACHE OF ROYAL TIARAS, NECKLACES AND DIAMOND ORNAMENTS WERE ACQUIRED BY SOCIETY’S ELITE, WHO WORE THEM TO THE OPERA AND LAVISH GALAS. BROOCH OF ROUND AND BAGUETTE DIAMONDS, BASED ON JEWELS IN THE TIFFANY ARCHIVES. BROOCH INSPIRED BY A DESIGN FROM THE FRENCH CROWN JEWELS. THE CURRANT MOTIF, A FAVORITE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, IS CAPTURED WITH ROUND AND CUSHION-CUT DIAMONDS IN PLATINUM. 9 A CORSAGE SUITE IS ST YLIZED WIT H MIXED-CUT DIAMONDS IN WELL-ROUN DED SHAPES AND CLEAN LI NES FLORAL RINGS AND BRACELET OF BAGUETTE AND ROUND BRILLIANT DIAMONDS. 10 THE CORSAGE SUITE’S DROP EARRINGS AND NECKLACE OF BAGUETTE AND ROUND BRILLIANT DIAMONDS. 12 ART DECO IS DIST INGUISHED BY GEOMETRIC PATT ERNS IN CRISP BLACK AND WHIT E. TI FFANY DESIGNERS RENDER THESE MOTIFS IN ST RIKINGLY BEAUT IFUL JEWELS. DIAMOND DROP EARRINGS AND A BANGLE WITH A FAN MOTIF OF DIAMONDS ON BLACK LACQUER. 15 NECKLACE WITH A PEAR-SHAPED DIAMOND DROP, 7.18 CARATS, WITH EARRINGS WITH TWO PEAR-SHAPED DIAMONDS, 10.29 TOTAL CARATS. 85 CUSHION-CUT AND ROUND DIAMONDS. 16 17 TIFFANY’S FANCY COLOR DIAMONDS ARE PRECISELY CUT TO MAXIMIZE COLOR, WITH PERFECTION OF TONE AND SATURATION. PINK DIAMONDS DELIGHT THE EYE IN SETTINGS THAT FOLLOW ART DECO’S CHIC SYMMETRY. RINGS OF PINK AND WHITE DIAMONDS IN PLATINUM. 19 FLORAL RINGS OF PINK DIAMONDS IN 18 KARAT ROSE GOLD FLORAL MEDALLION PENDANT OF PINK AND WHITE DIAMONDS. AND WHITE DIAMONDS IN PLATINUM. 20 21 TI FFANY YELLOW DIAMONDS RADIATE COLOR THAT SPARKLES LIKE THE SUN RINGS WITH A RADIANT-CUT FANCY INTENSE TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND, 4.02 CARATS, WITH BLUE SAPPHIRES AND WHITE DIAMONDS; A CUSHION-CUT FANCY INTENSE TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND, 5.04 CARATS, WITH SPESSARTITES AND WHITE DIAMONDS; AND A RADIANT-CUT PENDANT WITH A FANCY INTENSE TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND, 24.82 CARATS, FANCY TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND, 3.25 CARATS, WITH PINK AND WHITE DIAMONDS. WITH WHITE DIAMONDS TOTALING 41.86 CARATS. 22 23 DAISY MEDALLION PENDANT WITH A CUSHION-CUT TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND, 3.60 CARATS, WITH DIAMONDS AND PEARLS. RIGHT: FLORAL BRACELET WITH TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMONDS AND WHITE DIAMONDS. 24 TANZANIT E CAPTURES THE BLUE OF THE OC EAN WITH SHADES OF THE MIDNIGHT SKY AND FLASHES OF VIOLET BRACELET WITH FIVE ROWS OF TANZANITE BEADS, WITH A CLASP OF DIAMONDS PENDANT WITH A ROUND TANZANITE, 40.06 CARATS, WITH ROUND AND MILGRAINED PLATINUM. DIAMONDS TOTALING 34.86 CARATS. 26 27 TSAVORIT E CONTRAST S WIT H DIAMONDS IN JEWELS WIT H A FLUID ELEGANCE AND AN EASY GRACE NECKLACE AND EARRINGS OF BEAUTIFULLY MATCHED TSAVORITES, WITH ROUND AND PEAR-SHAPED DIAMONDS. FLORAL BRACELET OF 30 ROUND TSAVORITES, ROUND AND MARQUISE DIAMONDS. 29 NAMED FOR AMERiCAN FINANCIER J. P. MORGAN, MORGANITE BLUSHES WITH A HUE AS SOFT AS SILK EARRINGS OF MORGANITES, 55.10 TOTAL CARATS, SURROUNDED BY DIAMOND LEAVES, IN PLATINUM AND 18 KARAT ROSE GOLD. 31 KUNZITE, A LILAC-PINK STONE FOUND IN CALIFORNIA IN 1902, HIGHLIGHTS TIFFANY’S DECADES OF DISCOVERY BRACELET OF 24 OVAL KUNZITES, 70.96 TOTAL CARATS, EARRINGS OF 20 OVAL KUNZITES, 30.83 TOTAL CARATS, AND ROUND DIAMONDS. AND DIAMONDS IN A WIDE SCROLL MOTIF. 32 33 TI FFANY BROUGHT AMERiCAN GEMST ONES SUCH AS MONTANA SAPPHIRES TO THE FOREFRONT OF FASHION ARCHIVES-INSPIRED NECKLACE OF 56 MONTANA SAPPHIRES WITH DIAMONDS. 34 NECKLACE WITH A RARE UNENHANCED ESTEEMED MONTANA SAPPHIRE, 5.58 CARATS, BRACELETS OF MONTANA SAPPHIRES AND DIAMONDS IN PLATINUM. WITH 383 DIAMONDS AND 75 CARVED MONTANA SAPPHIRES. 36 37 ART DECO’S VIVID COLOR PALETT E IS REFLECTED IN TURQUOISE OF GENEROUS SIZE AND A SMOO TH, EVEN TEXTURE PENDANTS WITH A TURQUOISE OF 100.27 CARATS, BORDERED WITH DIAMONDS; AND A TURQUOISE OF 285.16 CARATS, WITH AN OVERLAY OF DIAMONDS. 38 TIFFANY’S COLORS OF WONDER COLLECTION SHOWCASES THE RAREST DIAMONDS IN THE WORLD RINGS OF FANCY COLOR DIAMONDS IN WHITE DIAMOND AND PLATINUM SETTINGS, FROM LEFT: AN EMERALD-CUT FANCY DEEP ORANGE DIAMOND, 3.66 CARATS; A RECTANGULAR MODIFIED BRILLIANT FANCY BLUE DIAMOND, 5.02 CARATS; AN EMERALD-CUT FANCY INTENSE GREEN DIAMOND, 1.53 CARATS; A CUSHION-CUT FANCY VIVID TIFFANY YELLOW DIAMOND, 5.86 CARATS. 41 PRESS.TIFFANY.COM THE NAMES TIFFANY, TIFFANY & CO., T&CO., THE COLOR TIFFANY BLUE AND THE TIFFANY BLUE BOX ARE TRADEMARKS OF TIFFANY AND COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES. DESIGNS COPYRIGHTED BY TIFFANY AND COMPANY. CATALOGUE COPYRIGHTED 2013 BY TIFFANY AND COMPANY. .